Ermione by G.Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, 2008, performed at Vitfrigo Arena. Directed by Daniele Abbado, conductor Roberto Abbado, starring Gregory Kunde, Sonia Ganassi, Marianna Pizzolato, Antonino Siragusa, Nicola Ulivieri, Ferdinand Von Bothmer, Cristina Faus, Riccardo Botta and I...

Anna Bolena by G. Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2006. Directed by Francesco Esposito, conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati, starring Mauro Corna, Dimitra Theodossiou, Riccardo Zanellato, Sofia Soloviy, José Maria Lo Monaco, Gian Luca Pasolini, L...

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production from the Zurich Opera, recorded on this DVD, Christoph von Dohnányi leads a particularly strong cast of singer-actors in a thrilling interp...

Anna Bolena by G. Donizetti from Reate Festival, performed at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, 2013. Directed by Cesare Scarton, conductor Fabio Biondi. Starring Federico Benetti (Enrico VIII), Marta Torbidoni (Anna Bolena), Laura Polverelli (Giovanni Seymour), Dionisos Tsantinis (Lord Rochefort), Mois...

L'elisir d'amore by G. Donizetti, from Paris Opera, 2006. Directed by Laurent Pelly, conductor Edward Gardner, starring Laurent Naouri, Ambrogio Maestri, Paul Groves, Heidi Grant Murphy and Aleksandra Zamojska. Performed in Italian.

Oberto by G. Verdi, from Ópera de Bilbao, 2007. Directed by Ignacio García, conductor Yves Abel, starring Ildar Abdrazakov, Evelyn Herlitzius, Marianne Cornetti and Carlo Ventre. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

In his autobiography Opera Years Rolf Liebermann wrote: “Of all the film versions of operas in which I was involved, my favourite has always been Wozzeck, mainly because the interpreters and location were so convincingly authentic.” And truly, this film adoption of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, recorded ...

Oberon by C.M. v. Weber, from Bayerische Staatsoper, performed at National Theatre Munich, 2017. Directed by Nikolaus Habjan, conductor Ivor Bolton, starring Rachael Wilson, Annette Dasch, Anna El-Khashem, Johannes Kammler, Julian Prégardien, Brenden Gunnell and Alyona Abramowa. Performed in Germ...

Magnificat by J. S. Bach, from Ballet Zürich, performed at Opernhaus Zürich/ Zurich Opera House, 2012. Conductor Marc Minkowski, starring Galina Mikhaylova, Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, Juliet Brunner, Samantha Mednick, She Yun Kim, Melanie Borel, Vahe Martirosyan, Filipe Portugal, Arman Grigoryan and Ol...

Maria Stuarda by G. Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Opera performed at Teatro Gaetano Donizetti/ Gaetano Donizetti Theatre, 2002. Directed by Francesco Esposito, conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminat, starring Carmela Remigio, Sonia Ganassi, Joseph Calleja, Riccardo Zanellato, Marzio Giossi and Ci...

Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi, from Leipzig Opera, 2005. Directed by Don Kent, conductor Riccardo Chailly. Starring Massimiliano Pisapia, Franco Vassallo, Chiara Taigi, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You, Leipzig Ballet, Choir of the Leipzig Opera.

Tristan und Isolde by Wagner from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2007. Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff, conductor Jiří Bĕlohlávek. Starring Nina Stemme (Isolde), Robert Gambill (Tristan), Katarina Karnéus (Brangäne), Bo Skovhus (Kurwenal), Ren...

Von Heute auf morgen by A. Schönberg from Gran Teatro La Fenice, performed at La Fenice, 2008. Directed by Andreas Homoki, conductor Eliahu Inbal. Starring Georg Nigl (Mann), Brigitte Geller (Frau), Sonia Visentin (Freundin), Mathias Schulz (Sänger), Michelangelo D’Adamo (Kind), Teatro La Fenice ...

"Boris Blacher was one of the most important and most widely performed composers in post-war Germany. In his 1969 opera “200 000 Taler” (200 000 Thalers) he adapted a comedy by famed and popular Jewish author Scholom Aleichem and created a sophisticated milieu study around tailor Schimele Soroker...

"George Frideric Handel‘s ‚Admeto‘ is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century. Along with ‚Radamisto‘, ‚Giulio Cesare‘, ‚Tamerlano‘, ‚Rodelinda‘ and ‚Alessandro‘, which were also written in this period, ‚Admeto‘ belongs to Handel‘s so-called ‚Lo...

Adriana Lecouvreur by F.Cilea, from Torino Teatro Regio, 2009. Directed by Lorenzo Mariani, conductor Renato Palumbo, starring Diego Matamoros, Marcelo Álvarez, Giuseppe Milano, Marianne Cornetti, Carlo Bosi, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Micaela Carosi, Simone del Savio, Antonella de Chiara, Patrizia Porz...

Agnese by Paër from Teatro Regio Torino, performed at Teatro Regio Torino, 2019. Directed by Leo Muscato, conductor Diego Fasolis. Starring María Rey-Joly (Agnese), Markus Werba (Uberto), Edgardo Rocha (Ernesto), Filippo Morace (Don Pasquale), Andrea Giovannini (Don Girolamo) and Lucia Cirillo (C...

Agrippina by G.F.Handel, from Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, performed at Théâtre Municipal Raymond Devos, 2003. Directed by Frédéric Fisbach, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire, starring Philippe Jaroussky, Nigel Smith, Véronique Gens, Ingrid Perruche, Thierry Grégoire, Bernard Deletré, Fabrice Di Fa...

Agrippina by G.F. Händel, from Theater an der Wien, 2016. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock, starring Danielle de Niese, Christoph Seidl, Mika Kares, Filippo Mineccia, Damien Pass, Jake Arditti, Patricia Bardon and Tom Verney. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, I...

Luciano Pavarotti heads an exceptional cast in this spectacular live recording from La Scala, Milan, with Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Chiara, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Juan Pons, all in peak form. Luca Ronconi's magnificent production of Verdi's much-loved masterpiece was a triumphant success, with Mauro P...

Aida by Verdi from Zurich Opera, performed at Zurich Opera House, 2006. Directed by Nicolas Joël, conductor Adam Fisher. Starring Nina Stemme (Aida), Salvatore Licitra (Radamès), Luciana d Intino (Amneris), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Laszlo Polgár (Ramphis), Günther Groissböck (Il Re di Egitto), Chris...

Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera, in a new production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Starring Marco Berti, Luciana D’Intino and Hui He. Verdi’s Aida is one of the most popular operas of all time. It premiered at the Cairo Opera House on C...

Aida by G. Verdi, from Arena di Verona, 2013. Directed by La Fura dels Baus, Carlus Padrissa and Àlex Ollé, conductor Omer Meir Wellber, starring Ambrogio Maestri, Hui He, Fabio Sartori, Adrian Sampetrean, Giovanna Casolla and Roberto Tagliavini, A messaggero and A Sacerdotessa. Performed in Ital...

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016 - Händel: Il Trionfo del tempo e del Disinganno by Georg Friedrich Händel, 2016. Directed by Stéphane Metge, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm. Starring Sabine Devieilhe, Sarah Mingardo, Franco Fagioli.Performed in Italian.